Jim Matthews Administrator

When you say that it did not work for you, what exactly is not working? Are you not seeing your shortcuts when you run Fetch on 10.3.6? That might indicate that you moved the "Fetch Shortcuts" file to the wrong Preferences folder. You want the one in the Library folder of your Home folder (click the house icon to go to your home folder in the Finder).

guest Registered Member

I copied the old Fetch Shortcuts, but Fetch won't see them. I was runing 10.2.x on my older G4 and got a new G5. I tried, as suggested in this post, but interestingly the icon does not look like a fetch icon and even if I manually associated it with Fetch it would not open. I even tried to do this in Unix as a root user with a 'cp', but to no avail.

Jim Matthews Administrator

cp won't work because it won't preserve the file type and creator information (that's also why the icon doesn't look right). I would stuff the original file in a StuffIt archive, copy it over (with cp or any other command), and then expand the archive. That way you'll keep all the type/creator and resource fork information.

By the way, in Mac OS 10.4 Apple improved the cp command to preserve Mac-specific information.